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“Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Har-Magedon” Revelation 16:16
ARMAGEDDON Mariano Chelo
Cover Image: ARMAGEDDON Acrylic on canvas 150 cm X 200 cm
ARMAGEDDON An Exhibition of Painting by Mariano Chelo
15th MAY 2015 - 15th JUNE 2015 I ARTMOORHOUSE
MOOR HOUSE, 120 LONDON WALL, LONDON EC2Y5ET
EXHIBITION CURATED BY ELISA MARTINELLI, MARIASOLE MICHIELIN BROCHURE CONCEPT ARTMOORHOUSE ALL IMAGES ©Mariano Chelo MEDIA PARTNER
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In the Book of Revelation Armageddon is described as the final confrontation, the great battle between God and the False Prophet’s armies. A war necessitated by the fiendishly evil ambitions of humankind and their evil source of power. While referring to a specific location, Armageddon carries also the profound symbolic meaning of Apocalypse, seen as the end of the world as we know it. For Mariano Chelo Armageddon assumes a more personal interpretation, a meaning which is centred on the fear of demise. It is around this very concept that Mariano Chelo develops his entire artistic narrative. A deep inner conflict which is represented in his early works by a figurative and neo-cubist language dominated by heavy, insistent black brushstrokes. A fear of the existential void appeased by the glimpse of traces of possible life in the final horizon, represented, as for the works on show, by an unlimited space where liquid transparent colours dominate and where red is paramount. Mariano Chelo's human journey moves us and suggests to us possible existential pathways. It is an imaginary “migration”, a voyage through a deep dark sea, a “passage” towards the unexplored, a metaphor to express our inability to fully know the result of our quests. It is the duty of the artist – as the Chelo seems to suggest – to absorb the impurities and the pain of the human lives and to render them serene, purified to eyes of those who are able to decode the secret of art.
ARMAGEDDON - Acrylic on canvas - 150 cm x 200 cm
ILLUSIONE ROSSA - Acrylic on canvas - 150 cm x 200 cm
CONFUSAMENTE ROSSO - Acrylic on canvas - 80 cm x 73 cm
ROSSO - Acrylic on canvas - 100 cm x 100 cm
BEETHOVEN SIMPHONY Acrylic on canvas 100 cm x 100 cm
ROCK - Acrylic on canvas - 150 cm x 200 cm
ATTESA - Acrylic on canvas - 100 cm x 100 cm
ORDINE E CAOS I - Acrylic on canvas 100 cm x 100 cm
ORDINE E CAOS III -Acrylic on canvas 100 cm x 100 cm
GENESI I- Acrylic on canvas - 75 cm x 175 cm GENESI III - Acrylic on canvas - 100 cm x 120 cm
PASSAGGIO DI CARNE - Acrylic on canvas - 100 cm x 100 cm
PASSAGGIO AL NEGATIVO - Acrylic on canvas - 100 cm x 100 cm
PASSAGGIO DI MATERIA - Acrylic on canvas - 100 cm x 100 cm
PASSAGGIO DI FUOCO - Acrylic on canvas - 150 cm x 200 cm
PASSAGGIO DI CAVERNA - Acrylic on canvas - 150 cm x 200cm
PASSAGGIO INCERTO - Acrylic on canvas - 100 cm x 100 cm
PASSAGGIO INCONGRUENTE - Acrylic on canvas - 100 cm x 100 cm
PASSAGGIO - Acrylic on canvas - 100 cm x 100 cm
MIGRAZIONE - Acrylic on canvas - 100 cm x 120 cm
ORIZZONTE COMPLICATO - Acrylic on canvas 100 cm x 120 cm
SEGRETI- Acrylic on canvas - 100 cm x 120 cm
SEGNALI POSITIVI - Acrylic on canvas - 100 cm x 100 cm
PENSIERI II - Acrylic on canvas - 200 cm x 100 cm
PENSIERI - Acrylic on canvas - 100 cm x 150 cm
OBLIVION - Acrylic on canvas - 150 cm x 200 cm
PARTICOLARE DI UNIVERSO - Acrylic on canvas - 100 cm x 150 cm
TRAMONTO SINTETICO - Acrylic on canvas - 100 cm x 100 cm
MARE - Acrylic on canvas - 100 cm x 150 cm
MARE II -Acrylic on canvas 120 cm x 100 cm
Solo Show
Art Installations and Performances
1992 Palazzo della Meridiana, Bosa, Italy 1993 Galeria San Josè Palacio, Costa Rica 1994 Centro Kairos, Sassari, Italy 1995 Te Art, Torino, Italy 1996 Kunst Haus, Salzburg, Austria 1997 Tibarg Galerie, Hamburg, Germany 1997 Eticon E.S.I., Hamburg, Germany 1997 C.S.T. Palazzo Deriu, Bosa Italy 1998 Casa Matisse, Torino, Italy 1998 Centro Kairos, Macomer, Italy 2000 Gallura d’Arte Moderna, Galleria Simpliciana, Olbia, Italy 2000 Centro Kairos, Sassari, Italy 2000 Eticon E.S.I., Hamburg, Germany 2002 IterArte, Circolo Artisti, Bologna, Italy 2002 Cascina De Ferrari, Almenno S.S., Bergamo, Italy 2003 Palazzo Don Carlo, “MAP”, Bosa, Italy 2003 Centro Taphros, Musica sulle Bocche, Santa Teresa di Gallura, Italy 2003 Galleria Comunale, Avanzi d’estate, San Pantaleo, Olbia, Italy 2004 Insight, via Fratina, Roma, Italy 2004 Art Gallery Gallo Nero, Hannover, Germany 2005 Boushahry Gallery, Kuwait City, UAE 2006 MAP, Bosa, Italy 2007 Galleria La Bacheca, Cagliari, Italy 2007 Art Gallery Al Fanar, Kuwait City, UAE 2007 Galleria La Palma d’Oro, Macomer, Italy 2007 Castello Svevo, Barletta, Italy 2008 Libreria Icaro, Lecce, Italy 2009 S’Olivariu, Gonnesa, Italy 2009 Gambassi Terme, Firenze, Italy 2010 Corner, Pinocchio 2.0, Olbia, Italy 2010 Galleria Suoni e Pause, Cagliari, Italy 2013 Art Found Gallery, Cagliari, Italy 2014 Sa Corona Arrubia – Museo del territorio – Villanovaforru. Italy 2015 Galleria Ziranu – Nuoro, Italy 2015 12x12 “CAPRICCI e NOTTURNI” Galleria Comunale, Carbonia, Italy
1993 Bambine alla finestra, with Vittoria Cusatelli, Palazzo Don Carlo, Bosa, Italy 1995 Murales strada di Suni, Centro di Cultura, Bosa, Italy 2002 Textures, with the Calic orchestra, piazza del Porto, Alghero, Italy 2002 Textures, with the Calic orchestra, Trinità d’Agultu, Italy 2002 Textures, electronic painting, with the Calic orchestra, Chiostro di San Francesco, Alghero, Italy 2003 Textures, electronic painting, with the Calic orchestra, Théâtre municipal de Clermont-Ferrand, France 2003 Digital Action Painting, with the Maver Quartet, San Pantaleo, Olbia, Italy 2004 Digital Action Painting, with Antonello Salis and Paolo Angeli, Jazz in’It, Vignola, Italy 2004 Noveventi, Torre Aragonese, Bosa Marina, Italy 2004 Action Painting, with Enzo Favata and trio, Chiesa di San Pietro, Bosa, Italy 2004 Action Painting, with Enzo Favata and trio, Torre Aragonese, S. Lucia, Italy 2005 Action Painting, Artist Kuwait Association, Kuwait City, UAE 2005 Action Painting, Sorrisi sull’acqua (theatricals), Bosa, Italy 2005 Action Painting, Pseudoconcert, with Claudio Sanna, MAP, Bosa, Italy 2007 Action Painting, with Enzo Favata and Giorgio Pacorig 2007 Action Painting, Musiche nel Sinis, with Miroslav Vitous and Favata Quartet 2007 Action Painting, Festival Regnos Altos, with Miroslav Vitous and Favata Quartet 2008 Action Painting, with Enzo Favata and Marcello Peghin, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2008 Action Painting, with Enzo Favata and Marcello Peghin, San Paulo, Brazil 2008 Action Painting, with Enzo Favata and Marcello Peghin, Belo Orizzonte, Brazil 2008 Jazz in It, with Paolo Fresu, Giammaria Testa and Vignola Quintet 2009 Action Painting, with African Band, Johannesburg, South Africa 2009 Action Painting, La Buona Novella, with Antonella Ruggero, Olbia e Nuoro, Italy 2009 Musica a Palazzo, art installation with thirty-seven musicians, Bosa, Italy 2009 Solidarte, Cagliari, Italy 2010 La Notte dei Desideri, performance, Torre di Bosa Marina, Italy 2013 Pausa caffè, Art Found Gallery, Cagliari, Italy
Collective exhibitions 1992 Biennale dell’affresco, Bosa, Italy
1992 S.M. della Quercia, Orvieto, Italy 1992 Leone d’Oro, Fertilia, Italy
1995 L’asino di Troia, Calangianus, Italy
1996 C. Kairos, Palazzo Uras, Bosa, Italy
1996 Gli Opposti Invasori, visual arts, Nuoro, Italy
1996 Mirabelle Pavillon, Salzburg, Austria
1996 Kunst und Kontext, Bratislava, Slovakia
1996 Kunst und Kontext, Budapest, Hungary
1996 Kunst und Kontext, Prague, Poland
1997 C. Kairos, Castello Doria, Castelsardo, Italy
1998 Bruke Nida, Lithuania
1998 Galerija Arka, Vilnius, Lithuania
1998 Galerija Kauno Langas, Kaunas, Lithuania
1998 Rotaract, Quartu S. Elena 1999 Arte Natura B, with Enzo Favata and Marcello Peghin 2000 C. Kairos, Sassari, Italy
2000 Mobilia Ferroni, Sassari, Italy
2003 Macchie Mediterranee, Sennariolo, Italy
2004 Galeria Cassa, Cluj Napoca, Romania
2004 Le stanze di Eros, Fondazione Meilogu Logudoro, Banari, Italy
2004 Noveventi, Bosa, Italy 2004 Bos’Art, Fondazione Colletti, Convento dei Cappuccini, Bosa, Italy
2005 Bos’Art, Fondazione Colletti, Convento dei Cappuccini, Bosa, Italy
2006 SAF Sardegna Arte Fiera, Cagliari, Italy 2007 Work Shop, Kuwait Art Association, Kuwait City, UEA 2009 Alexander Museum Palace, Pesaro, Italy
2009 Paratissima, Torino, Italy
2011 Fare Sostenibile, Cagliari, Italy 2011 Fare Sostenibile, Buggerru, Italy
2011 Arte ama l’arte, Museo Banari, Italy
2012 Dalla L a Dalla, Insit, Bologna, Italy
2012 Arte&ECO, Palazzo Regio, Cagliari
2012 Magnificat, Lazzareto, Cagliari, Italy 2012 Fiera del piccolo formato, Museo Banari, Italy 2012 Il Pianoforte, MAP, Bosa, Italy 2013 7 punti di Vista, MAP, Bosa, Italy
Collections and Museums Fondazione Banco di Sardegna, Italy Regione Autonoma della Sardegna, Italy Collezione Eticon, Hamburg, Germany Museo Fondazione Logudoro Meilogu, Italy Comune di Bosa, Italy Comune di Iglesias, Italy Collezione Longo, Palermo, Italy Museo Arte Moderna, Vilnius, Lithuania Circolo degli Artisti, Bologna, Italy Club Corniche, Kuwait City, UEA Collezione M. Cerchi, S. Antioco, Italy Collezione Moi, Cagliari, Italy Kuwait Art Association, UEA Università di Sassari, Italy Banca di Sassari, Italy Pinacoteca Carmelo Floris, Olzai, Italy
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